Organizing Data
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Types of Data
Levels of Measurement
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How often something occurs.

What is frequency?

100

Values in the middle of the classes.

What are class midpoints?

100

Attributes, labels, or numerical entries.

What is Categorical/Qualitative data?

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Qualitative only. Categorized using names, labels, or qualities.
What is Nominal Level of Measurement?
100

Quantitative or Categorical/Qualitative?: Age of your Car

What is Quantitative?

200

A distribution or table that shows how data are partitioned among several categories by listing the categories along with the number of data values in each of them.  

What is a frequency distribution or table?

200

The difference between two consecutive lower-class limits or two consecutive lower-class boundaries in a frequency distribution.

What is a class width?

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Numerical measurements or counts.
What is Quantitative?
200
Qualitative or Quantitative. Categorized in order, or ranking but differences between data entries is not meaningful.
What is Ordinal Level of Measurements?
200
Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, or Ratio: Zip Codes
What is Nominal?
300

The smallest number that can belong to a category or class.

What is a lower-class limit?

300
Determining how a population behaves derived from a sample.
What is an example of Inferential Statistics?
300
Quantitative measurement that cannot be counted like an average.
What is Continuous?
300
Can be ordered and meaningful differences between data entries can be calculated. 0 represents position on scale, not an actual 0.
What is Interval Level of Measurement?
300
Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, or Ratio: Calendar Dates
What is Interval?
400

The largest number that can belong to a class or category.

What is an upper-class limit?

400
The action of a physician studying turbulence in a laboratory.
What is an example of Descriptive Statistics?
400
Can be counted like the number of wheels on a car.
What is Discrete?
400
The same as Interval except 0 is an actual 0 and a measurement.
What is Ratio Level of Measurements?
400
Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, or Ratio: Age
What is Ratio?
500

A number used to separate classes, but without the gaps created by class limits.

What is a class boundary?

500

Inferential And Descriptive Statistics.

What are the branches of statistics?

500

The measurement of how fast a car was going.

What is an example of Quantitative Data?

500

Student ID numbers

What is Nominal Level of Measurements?

500
Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, or Ratio: Street Numbers
What is Ordinal?
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